01751cam a22002537 4500001000600000003000500006005001700011008004100028100002000069245009300089260006600182490004100248500001900289520065600308530006100964538007201025538003601097690010301133690007001236710004201306830007601348856003701424856003601461w9347NBER20161209092749.0161209s2002 mau||||fs|||| 000 0 eng d1 aRose, Andrew K.10aDo WTO Members have More Liberal Trade Policy?h[electronic resource] /cAndrew K. Rose. aCambridge, Mass.bNational Bureau of Economic Researchc2002.1 aNBER working paper seriesvno. w9347 aNovember 2002.3 aThis paper uses 68 measures of trade policy and trade liberalization to ask if membership in theWorld Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is associated with more liberal trade policy. Almost no measures of trade policy are significantly correlated with GATT/WTO membership. Trade liberalizations, when they occur, usually lag GATT entry by many years, and the GATT/WTO often admits countries that are closed and remain closed for years. The exception to the negative rule is that WTO members tend to have slightly more freedom as judged by the Heritage Foundation's index of economic freedom. aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. aMode of access: World Wide Web. 7aF13 - Trade Policy • International Trade Organizations2Journal of Economic Literature class. 7aF15 - Economic Integration2Journal of Economic Literature class.2 aNational Bureau of Economic Research. 0aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)vno. w9347.4 uhttp://www.nber.org/papers/w934741uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w9347